OF THE GENUS MILLETTIA. 155 
480, Henry, 894 (Bankinsing); Kiangsi, Forbes, 122, and Shearer ( Kiu- 
Idina) Wilson, 1648 (Kiukiang plain); Hupeh, Henry, 631 (Ichang), 
1554 А, 2280, 2411 (Patung District), Wilson, 1017 (Patung): Chekiang, 
Forbes, 862 (Ningpo District), Faber (Nine gpo); Luchu Islands ( fide Yatabe), 
Fortune, 68, 
A common and very beautiful climber in hedges, wood-borders, and 
rough stony slopes in many parts of S.E. China. The flowers are dark 
purple to dark red in the coastal regions, purple or rose in the interior: the 
former kind dries almost black in flower and leaf; the latter, which main- 
tains its colour and has, moreover, a more downy inflorescence, has been dis- 
tinguished by Hance under the name of J. cogneta, but with the abundant 
material now available it is impossible to regard it as distinct from 
M. reticulata. 
15. M. EURYBOTRYA, Drake in Morot, Journ. de Bot. v. (1891) 187. 
Frutex scandens, cortice striato, fusco. Folia ramorum floriferorum 
omnino glabra, (2—)3-juga, 20-25 em. longa, petiolo 4-plo longiora; stipule 
laneeolatze, basi in auriculam product ; foliola lateralia superiora oblonga, 
obtuse acuminata, basi rotundata, chartacea, opaca, venulosa, venis marginem 
appropinquantibus 5-6-paribus arcuatis infra prominentibus ; petioluli 
2-3 mm. longi; stipelle setacez, 2 mm. longæ ; folia ramorum sterilium 
similia sed longiora; foliola longiora, angustiora, basi magis cuneata. 
Panicula terminalis, pedunculata, 20-40 em. longa, rachi ut pedicellis calyci- 
busque dense puberula; rami longi, patentes, basi stipuliferi. Flores 
approximati sed singuli, 1-4-1*5 em. longi ; pedicelli 4-5 mm. longi ; bracteze 
linerares, 1-2 mm. longe, persistentes. Calya campanulatus, 4 mm. longus 
et latus, dentibus brevibus rotundatis ; bracteole: 2, bracteis similes. Petala 
rosea, glabra ; vexilli lamina fortiter reflexa, rotundata, ungui 4-plo longior, 
basi paullo transverse callosa ; alæ basi utrinque subfaleale ; carinæ petala 
Stamina diadelpha. Discus brevis, tubulosus. Ovarium 
basi truncata. 
in stipitem brevem angustatum, glabrum, multiovulatum. 
lineare, basi 
Legumen 4-11 em. longum, 3 em. latam, nonnunquam inter semina con- 
strictum, apice basique obtusum, marginatum, glabrum, facile dehiscens ; 
valve coriaceæ inter semina leviter cohmrentes. Semina 1-4, compressa, 
2:5 cm. longa, 2 em. lata, 6 mm. crassa 
COCHIN CHINA : Tonkin, Tu Phap, Balansa, 2300, 2303-4 (types), 2802 
(Banks of Black River, type). 
16. M. speciosa, Champ. in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. (1852) 73; Benth. FL 
Hongk. TS; Forbes and Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soe., Bot. xxiii. (1586) 
159; Dunn and Tutcher, Fl. Kwangt. T6.—M. nitida, Drake in Journ. de 
Bot. v. 187, non Benth. 
Frutex procumbens, ramis velutinis tandem glabrescentibus, siccitate nigris. 
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